roll call. >> mr. haney ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns thank you president fewer ms. sonata mr. chin thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance thank you

superintendent carranza i believe you have an announcement. >> thank you president fewer yes. i'd like to announce that the gay are straight alliance agenda on d is withdrawn from the agenda and will be presented at the future meeting of the board of education and this is approval of the board meeting ever september 23rd may i have a motion and second. >> second. >> any corrections roll call vote. >> ms. son at explaining mr. haney ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns and president fewer 6 i's thank you this is a presentation others board of education from the superintendent in the superintendent report superintendent carranza. >> thank you president fewer and good evening, everyone i'd

like to start off this evening but saying two simple words go giants (clapping.) with that, over a week ago more than 3 thousand 5 hundred step forward students were treated to a free sincerity on the bluegrass festival we remember our festivity and founder of the festival warren had a kid's only concert and the beloved tradition continues today, we wanted to thank all the staff and administrators and the students for attending that festival i'm very, very happy to share with the public that one of our elementary schools has been recognized at 2014 blew ribbon school by the democratic

of education that is an incredible honor and long with 12 other public utilities and private schools the national blue ribbon shows performances from disadvantaged backgrounds the school will be honored at the imply ribbon on november 10th in washington, d.c. we have so proud of clare ton elementary school they join a rather responsibility list of sfusd schools that were previous winners light blue ribbons (calling names) and stevenson and others elementary school details the achievement of the 2014 national blue ribbons can be found open the u.s. department of education on the

website congratulations to the ma cleaner high school we want to invite you to our enrollment on saturday october 5th at the fab fabulous john school on folsom street come to see what our public utilities offer and attend the workshops and traditionally kindergarten and special education and memorial day that's right and skoorpdz b will all be part of the workshops on that day you can visit wwwsf sfusd e d u back slash - sf schools back slash - for childcare and shuttle bus picks up our schools prepare all

year to show should 0 you what we offer we invite the public to come out you won't be disappointed today we were treated to be featured at the dream effort convention host those by the sales i was joined and i by mayor ed lee and k-8 and to be part of the wonderful, wonderful event happening in our city where chairman and ceo mark highlight our partnership with the mayor and with sfusd during his remarks in his keynote he'd that was absolutely remarkable salesforce highlighted the partnership we hope to show in theuture suffice it to say it is helping us to have a true educational

experience with opportunity of global citizenship and while salesforce has stepped up with our mayor to invest in our schools i look forward to future superintendents highlighting other partners that have invested in sfusd i'm proud to say to the public the list is growing explicitly in folks that building if the mission and the district and the direction we're heading to again, thank you to mark ben hoff and mayor ed lee for all our community partners that building in the mission of public utilities in san francisco we said that once we'll continue to say it you can't have a world-class city without a world-class public education system so thank you for investing in our children thank you. >> thank you superintendent

item c recognitions and accommodations nothing but call up gene from the united administrators to introduce the current officers. >> good evening, everybody esther and students commissioners and superintendent and deputies and others my name is jean reporting son a 20-year veteran of this district very proud veteran i'm now representing the administrators in san francisco to the united administrators of san francisco and i brought our board members shout out to our co-executive director who bring with them a wealth of experience in former administrators in this district they're serving on an interim basis we're super thrilled they're helping carolina is our secretary and laura parker is

our treasurer natalie is not able to be here she's in the field working at the council meeting it is the first board meeting i've spoken at i'm normal at the meeting but i'm glad to acknowledge i'll the good work stick with us as we move along there the school year and support all the hard work in the schools and on the ground and in our central offices i'm sure you're aware of we're affiliated that the san francisco labor compoundable and the school administrators and the american federation this weekend we're going to be hosting the large urban district administrator unions out near the airport and we're very expected to talk about the issues in urban settings so that's it for the evening just

wanted to say hi and by all means don't be shy and come out and visit come out to glenn park i'm current the principle and you're welcome to pop-in and see us in action thank you. >> thank you very much now we'll take a photo

okay. >> thank you. >> president fewer may i have a point of personal privilege in this case while it's a paramounty thing ms. wilson this is a point of personal privilege i want to start by thanking a lot of you in that the room when they mother came today is my mothers one hundredth birthday (clapping) and honestly, i told president fewer at lunch had i known two months ago we had a small, small scombraurnd i won't be here i'm leaving at 5 clock in the morning to visit her i want to

acknowledge her long private life here and just a moment talk about i thought her life was a exemplifying with the united states of america was about my mom what was born if russian and her father and her and her mom had to flee from the revolution where they announced they would be shooting all the people including my grandfather i never met who was a factory owner 83 she lived in a place she returned 78 years later after the sovereign period and came to the united states and she grew up in the bronx and was one thought just like the millions of eastern jewish emigrates to the united states she graduated

from a college she is now, one of they're old it alumni she worked at barn i can't do and was active in the alumni association she actually give up being the court reporter for her class that's what she said nobody tells them with would e what to write they have 9 living members in their class anyway, i said to take this really personal privilege that i have i have this public roll to acknowledge her and all this country has done for her and our family and to thank you all for your kindness

(clapping.) thank you students delegates report. >> thank you president fewer good evening president fewer commissioners deputy superintendents and superintendent carranza tonight our s ac c is hosting the young voters forum at the balboa park holiday inn from 5 to 7:30 our goal to death the young voters to understand and vote this november election for those who qualify a voters registration table will be provided for sign up free food and caregiver is provided too at this event there are 4 major panels that are housing and family services and living wages and school sport

thank you gavin s ac c had a candidate forum we would like to thank commissioner mendoza and commissioner for apartment in our panel discussion and in addition thank you commissioner wynns for supporting our events as well okay. so the s ac is a public council anyone can attend our meetings as an added incentive dinner for our cca representatives and lunch if you want to attend make a presentation or come to our f ac c meeting please contact our f organization c salvador lopez

thank you. >> thank you very much now item e the parent council report i believe we have two parents that are presenting tonight. >> hello hi. >> please state your name for the record. >> thank you very much citizens advisory committee and. >> i'm van ness tony good evening, commissioners thanks for the time this report will provide a brief update of the sub proprietors this year and we'll describe our recent pack activities for if the past month the per spectators are represented and in our last

meeting the pack members continued to explore areas of focus as we work to establish our priorities for the year next week we'll continue this processed and develop specific goals and identify action plans for you work one program will be to hold parent meetings with the community advocates and district partners about current district policies and possible briefings radio the african-american achievement plan, the new and interim reclassification standards and implementing the safe school noichts to name a few for about opportunity for the community partners to know how to support students and let their input directly impact

those decisions. >> thank you. >> i'll be reading on behalf of the 70 san francisco school district second family empowerment conference the pack members partnered with the staff in equality to plan and orientation and facility the workshop a call to counterpart african-american parents the idea for the workshop was from racial ethnicity as the schools that have greater you participation of african-american families and are created in leadership tints for acknowledging families the pack members wonder what support does african-american patterns need for their school sites to create their leadership opportunities what were some of

the successful strategies practicing tools to get african-american to participate what are some of the opportunities for the establishment of african-american groups parents who attended this workshop also wanted to know what more can they do to help their schools parents who also attended the workshop wanted to know the black street celebration to schools that don't have them the workshop was designed to support and build on the african-american parents ssi and create an alliance for african-american parents groups across the district to reduce the isolation we have i would like to say i also

attended the conference and i want to ask if the commissioners as well our superintendent he's already on board he is working hard to implement the plan. >>was this a good turnout for african-american families i'm struggling to do my best to try to get the african-american families on board that the unified school district i've been involved as a volunteer for 26 years as i've told the superintendent in the pack meeting that i have been an observer for 26 years if i live to see another 26 years i would to be a doer and help the families do better for your children i'll be hard working to launch a summit in 2016 called

not our children thank you (clapping.) >> closely related to it tactic thank you vanessa pack recruitment we officially closed our recruitment as of saturday october 3rd we've received several applications and will be reviewing those and a list of candidates for the seats currently open 4 spots oh, open in alternative positions and committed in line whether with what vanessa said in representing our group the diverse p that sfusd population represents as i've said before the more diverse group the better our discussions and the better our input to you will be. >> do we have any questions?

ms. mendoza-mcdonnell >> thank you. i wanted to note that the school district in addition to hiring someone that is focused on our african-american families is also engaging in my brother's keeper challenge and we're going to be working closely with the school district and the city is going to be jaement in that as well the mayor signed on to the challenge and we're going to be doing a larger effort around engaging our families and focusing on our brothers keeper on the men and women of color so we're looking forward to that we'd like for you to participate in our 26 years of hard working i'm sure you can bring wonderful experience we would like to gave me you on that. >> i'm i sat open the pack as a

vice chair so you can get the lead if georgia and i'll be willing to help. >> any questions or comments thank you very much for your presentation. >> item f public comment a consent no medical cannabis. >> any items withdrawn by the superintendent. >> yes. two corrections the first 140 dash k-47 under degree of student contact it should be not limited contact and the second to resolution on pages 93 and 94 the total costs should reflected 7 thousand 9 hundred

plus instead of 11 thousand plus any items removed for first reading by board seeing none and severed items for discussion and roll call vote superintendents proposal that are none and no proposals request to speak regarding general are matters we have quite a few of the speakers as you call our name come up to the podium. >> wow, that was good thank you superintendent

(calling names) you have 2 minutes each please come up first speaker please to the podium and all you do it press the bottom and identify user we will give additional time for translation thank you press the bottom. >> .

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening my name is ann we would like to thank the superintendent and all the members of the board of education for lowell you to speak we're here to advocate on behalf of our children who attend the mick center it provides the foundation for our children that need to integrate into a new system in a new country we have all around us good experience at making not only physical and emotional security but academic and social support this is why we like our new comers to be able to benefit as our children have we understand

that daniel webster maybe moving some of the clamors to the making next year with we're here to ask you to consider looking for space in other buildings we ask you to consider the needs of our children and our needs as parents that are attention it learn about our children's education and our beauty we ask you to consider the needs of our children's who have suffered personal threats by gangs and have been traumatized by witnesses witnessing violence among relatives and violence among friends as parents we want to learn how to know our children some of us have been separated from them up to 11 years we parents and our children's feel welcome and safe

at making in other words, we feel this is a second home and currently monroe elementary school is using some of the clamors at making we know how important it is for our children to gave me and learn about other cultures but we also need the space so our children can learn as required by law now, some of my colleagues will explain the other reaps we're here reasons we're here. >>